The court president judge Yuji Iwasawa said during last week’s ruling that countries’ failure to take appropriate action to ...

The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws ...

The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

The U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice in 2023 for an advisory opinion, a non-binding but ...

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...

The Paris Agreement struck through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has rallied a global response to ...

On July, 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the legal ...

The United Nations’ top court says countries failing to implement measures to mitigate climate change may be in violation of ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...

Climate activists are having their day in court, if Wednesday’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s unanimous opinion is a bellwether. The Hague court declaration that governments were legally ...

A warning from the United Nations' top court that failing to address climate change could violate international law could ...